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Join us for the AssemblyAI Challenge and capture the nuance of human speech: $3,000 in Prizes!

We are so excited to partner with AssemblyAI to launch a brand new challenge for the community.

Running through November 24, the AssemblyAI Challenge is all about innovating with human speech by building with the industry’s most powerful and accurate Speech AI models.

There are three prompts for this challenge with three opportunities to win!

Our Prompts

Sophisticated Speech-to-Text

Build an application that shows off the power of Universal-2, AssemblyAI’s latest and most accurate speech-to-text model. Formatting? Proper nouns? Timestamps? Universal-2 does it all.

Here is the submission template for anyone that wants to jump right in, but please review all challenge rules on the official challenge page before submitting.

Sophisticated Speech-to-Text Submission Template

Really Rad Real-Time

Build an application with a real-time experience by utilizing AssemblyAI’s Streaming API to convert live audio streams into text synchronously. You can transcribe all sorts of things – conversations, meetings, events, and more – what live interactions will your app elevate?

Here is the submission template for anyone that wants to jump right in, but please review all challenge rules on the official challenge page before submitting.

Really Rad Real-Time Submission Template

No More Monkey Business

Use LeMUR to build an application with a LLM-powered feature on top of Speech Data. You can search, extract insights, generate summaries, and more. How will LeMUR take your app to the next level?

Here is the submission template for anyone that wants to jump right in, but please review all challenge rules on the official challenge page before submitting.

No More Monkey Business Submission Template

Pro-tip: Your submission can count towards multiple prompts if you decide to tackle more than one! We can’t wait to see what you come up with.

Judging Criteria and Prizes

All three prompts will be judged on the following:

  • Use of underlying technology
  • Usability and User Experience
  • Accessibility
  • Creativity

The winner of each prompt will receive:

All Participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge on their DEV profile.

How To Participate

In order to participate, you will need to publish a post using the submission template associated with each prompt. All applications must be deployed using AssemblyAI models to qualify.

Access Account Credits

For Sophisticated Speech-to-Text participants:

For Really Rad Real-Time and No More Monkey Business Participants:

  • Create an AssemblyAI Account with this link
  • Then, click this link
    • It will give you access to all product offerings for the $50 free credit (includes Real-time and LeMUR). If you go straight to this step without being logged into your account, you will have to add funds to the account.
  • Enter credit card details. You will not have to add funds to the account.
  • Start building with the $50 free credit across all of our offerings!

Note: each participant can receive $50 in total credit, regardless of how many prompts they work on.

Please review our full rules, guidelines, and FAQ page before submitting so you understand our participation guidelines and official contests rules such eligibility requirements.

Need inspiration, help or support?

You can get to know the AssemblyAI APIs by utilizing their docs and tutorials:

We encourage everyone to join the AssemblyAI Discord to connect with their team and fellow builders.

Important Dates

  • November 13: AssemblyAI Challenge begins!
  • November 24: Submissions due at 11:59 PM PDT
  • December 5: Winners Announced

We can’t wait to see what you do with this technology. Questions about the challenge? Ask them below.

Good luck and happy coding!

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Bntstr

Looks cool

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Ben Halpern

Good luck everyone!

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kassem

@ben I'm from Tunisia; am I eligible to participate?

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Jess Lee

Just chiming in to confirm that members from Tunisia are eligible to participate.

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mohiyaddeen7

yes, you are.

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Ismail Drissi • Edited

How can i access LeMUR feature for free? @ben

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Vicente G. Reyes

This is tempting to do hmmm

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diosamuel

Excited!, but i think the rules, guidelines, and FAQ page link its broken

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Khushi Jutt

Really excited for this

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Peter Kim Frank

Really excited about this one.

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kassem

I'm from Tunisia; am I eligible to participate?

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Jess Lee

@kacemm yes, members from Tunisia are eligible to participate.

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mohiyaddeen7

yes, you are.

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Emeka Emmanuel

Lovely. I will love to be part though I am not grounded at it yet

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Chris murphy

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Jason Zamora

Tech overlord: "OH, they can still tell the difference between AI and humans?! We'll have to put an end to that"

Snivelling, product manager: "But how about if they don't want that and like being able to know?"

Tech overlord: "Offer a reward and they'll do it for you...lol"

Developers: "Me, me, me!"

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Abhishek Pawar

*Developers Chilling on Couch *:

Sees' free cash using bare minimum of my skills

Develops most sophisticated tools known to mankind

Still Doesnt get 1000 USD

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Haseeb Arshad • Edited

I'm so lost to learn that I'm very late to the party as I have faced a few challenges along the way and not being able to do it exactly on time because of an internet blackout in my city (Islamabad, Pakistan as some huge protests were happening) and I have to keep on with the VPNs to cope with the issue. (ref: Internet services partially resumed in Islamabad, Rawalpindi arynews.tv/internet-services-parti... and although some VPNs are blocked as well). But I've worked hard on something for this challenge in the last few days spending nights, ghosting my sleep time, and trying my best to get it done:

dev.to/haseebarshad/sayings-bringi...

It'd be best if you consider this in the submissions or making this post available to the public otherwise all of my workdone would go in vain and be of no useful :((

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